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Awareness of More

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Flower Bed Blooms

Flower Bed Blooms (Photo credit: IBBoard)

Like in a plot of ground, all men are a crop.  The Lord Himself has carved out of nothing that which is something.  Harvest is coming.  It will be a place of ending and beginning.  What is will never again be.  And what will be has never yet been.

We are like magnificent flowers and edible fruit to He who is able to transform a weed into a luscious delicacy.  He tends over all men as a farmer would watch for the budding crop.  Here weeding out.  There grafting in.  And does the crop perceive the farmer’s love?  What He has planted, tended, and fertilized will become so very much more than a crop.  Though the end result has not been revealed, we trust that He is able to accomplish what He has promised.

We are flowers of hope, springing up from wild dirt.  Cultivated, cut, and brushed with Holy pollen by a wisdom beyond eternity.  Which of us decided to be that seed we were?  And when we sprouted above the surface of the ground, which of us determined that we could ascend beyond this place?  We grow at His command.  And it is right to return thanks as a flower will follow the sun across the sky.

By His Grace.

Hey, Look at Me! I’m a Grape!

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Let’s put man in proper perspective.  The earth is the garden of God to raise a crop of people who will willingly worship Him in Spirit and in truth.  Often in the Bible we are compared to a crop.  It is as though we are grapes, for instance.  If you have an arbor of grapes, do you wail and cry when you pick a bunch of grapes?  Of course not.  They are designed and grown from your garden to consume them.  They provide something for your body after they are ripe and edible. 

A man of God realises that he is part of God’s crop.  He allows himself to be grown specifically to be harvested.  Harvest for us is the point of death.  It is at that point that God is harvesting our bodies to release the soul.  Ripe would be a term applied at the wisdom of God.  We are harvested when He determines it is time. 

Be careful not to consider yourself as anything more than a plant.  God is, in the end, the One who will decide your use to Him.  He is eternal.  We are the ones who are waiting to die.  That is, to be harvested for His Glory.  “What is man that you are mindful of him . . .”  Worship Him.  Serve Him.  It is for that purpose you were born.  And it is to Him that you will return.

By His Grace.